Monday, January 5, 2009

2008 in the rear view mirror

Only a few days into the New Year and 2008 is fading quickly into the background. Here's a quick look in the rear view mirror at some of last year’s highlights; projects, travels and work in the studio.


January:
Jane Hammond "Spells and Incantations" printing and gold leafing completed.
Headed to
Hawaii for a vacation.
February:
San Francisco:
-Saw the beautiful new De Young Museum and the HC Westermann exhibition at Stanford.
-To the opening of the "Enrique Chagoya: Borderlandia" survey exhibition at the
Berkeley Museum which included many prints that we published.
-Renee Bott of Paulson Press had a wonderful dinner for us at her home in
Berkeley with Pam Paulson and lots of friends.
Returned to the studio to work with my assistant Roseanne to refine the cutting and assembly of the
Hammond "mummy".

March:

Tom Burckhardt arrives to begin work on a group of new prints. Photo of him working outside in the snow, drawing blank canvases borrowed from Barbara's studio.

Begin Burckhardt editions.

Assembly of Hammond mummy continues.

April:

Betty Woodman arrives.

Cut blocks and proof woodblock “Picking Plum Blossoms", her first print to incorporate figurative images.

Participated in Art Chicago, our 22nd year of doing an art fair in Chicago!

May:

Print Woodman edition.

To Spokane for opening of John Buck: Iconography exhibition at Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture. Exhibition includes many of the 40 plus editions we have published and will travel through 2011. Next stop, Fort Wayne Museum.

Roberto Juarez arrives to begin our first project together.

Assembly of Hammond mummy continues.

June:

Proof and print Juarez

Assembly of Hammond mummy continues.

July:

Complete Juarez editions.

Print portion of John Buck “The Night Prism” edition.

Bernard Cohen arrives to begin 10 lithographs for Flowers Editions London.

August:

Proof Cohen lithographs.

Enrique Chagoya arrives, proof new lithograph "La Portentosa Vida de la Muerte II" and new codex “Histoire Naturelle des Espécies…”

September:

Begin editioning of Cohen lithographs.

October:

Continue Cohen edition printing.

To New York for Print Fair.

November:

IFPDA Print Fair
Election

Present talk with Enrique Chagoya at Palm Springs Museum of Art.

December:

Ink Miami

Complete Cohen editions.

2009:

After a holiday break we started the New Year:

Proofed new John Buck woodcut.

Printed Susanne Kühn lithograph for the MCA Denver.

Preparing work for our exhibition "The Legend of Bud Shark and his Indelible Ink" at the MCA Denver which opens Feb 3rd.